Re: I Finally Got To Drive My Subaru Somewhere

On 2021-06-16 8:19 PM, John McGaw wrote:
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> My Subaru in-dash system gives precisely three choices involving 
> time/distance. It even shows a sorta-map for each as you select. The 
> problem is that there is not enough detail to see exactly what any 
> particular line segment is. Is that a nice four-lane or is it a gravel 
> road leading past a gas-well drilling pad? That is what I meant 
> 'accurate' vs. 'precise' -- any route shown will get you there but you 
> cannot see what the real route is until you drive to a perceived 
> junction and by then it is too late. There is no option to tell the 
> nav to prefer paved roads over gravel or limited-access over country 
> lane. In fact they do give you options to avoid highways but no way to 
> ask to stick to the good roads. I'm pretty sure that the DeLorme 
> software I used on my laptop with a GPS dongle decades back gave 
> fine-grain control and would let you demand the minimum number of road 
> changes be used so that one wouldn't be diverted off a 'good' road to 
> save a few miles.
> 
> Anyway, now that Android Auto is working on my phone/car it is no big 
> deal -- AA provides real-time traffic re-routing and live warnings 
> about construction and accidents and closures which the Subaru system 
> doesn't even dream of. Yeah, maybe I'd use the the Subaru system if I 
> was just going to the other side of the county and needed to find an 
> address -- it is good at that -- but for long-distance travel, no way.
> 

On some systems I have used, you can set other parameters for 
navigation. For example, toll roads (yes/no), ferries (yes/no), major 
highways (yes/no), etc.

Unfortunately, I am not aware of any that have the option to avoid 
unpaved roads, or to *prefer* paved over unpaved roads, or to *prefer* 
secondary paved roads to interstates.

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